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I've got an issue with VSS, which confused the hell out of me for 45 minutes, I got a call from help desk this morning telling me that shares werent working on one of our file servers. I investigated it, couldn't see anything wrong with the server at all, so I tried restarting Server service, which hung, then rebooted the server. Came up fine, was working for about 15 minutes, then I got another call saying it had stopped working again. The only thing I had noticed since the server had booted was:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7036
Date: 18/11/2009
Time: 09:27:06
User: N/A
Computer: XXXXXXXX
Description:
The Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider service entered the running state.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
So I frantically stopped all BE services, killing off any backup jobs on the server, disabled VSS on all drives - and it started working again. After it was working, I googled through some things, and found this EE article: http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/2003_Server/Q_23985014.html unfortunately, the guy having the issue didn't do the nice thing and leave a KB for the fix. So I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this and could help me by letting me know the KB, or a fix, or anything... As having a file server without VSS in this day in age is sys admin hell.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7036
Date: 18/11/2009
Time: 09:27:06
User: N/A
Computer: XXXXXXXX
Description:
The Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider service entered the running state.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
So I frantically stopped all BE services, killing off any backup jobs on the server, disabled VSS on all drives - and it started working again. After it was working, I googled through some things, and found this EE article: http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/2003_Server/Q_23985014.html unfortunately, the guy having the issue didn't do the nice thing and leave a KB for the fix. So I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this and could help me by letting me know the KB, or a fix, or anything... As having a file server without VSS in this day in age is sys admin hell.